Detailing the process

Tobias Enhus: One of things that I wanted to do with this particular piece, because again…that it's an orchestral piece and it's piano based and it's little sort of a…bluesy theme, and nothing really ever repeats itself. One of the things that we…needed to do was basically to create something that actually can repeat itself…to get a couple of phrases that are cool and get sort of more contemporary…structure to it and what I did here on this thing is I basically did a filter…sequencing with beats underneath it that controls the sound.…

So basically I take a little short clip, and it plays in the same tempo and…everything. But Kyma is now basically filtering the sample in time to the…music and therefore I am getting a lot of interesting sort of little morphing…bits that are coming out, little musical phrases that comes out of this and…that can stringed together into a longer passage. But you are still retaining…like perhaps one tonal center, a few chosen chords as opposed to jumping all…over the place and with key changes and things like that, just again to create…

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11/21/2008

Celebrated radio DJ and music supervisor Jason Bentley takes his audience to Critical Mass Studios in Santa Monica for an inside look at the process of remixing a piece of music. Follow along as producer Jason Bentley and composer Tobias Enhus transform Carter Burwell's romantically lyrical arrangement of "Bella's Lullaby," from the score for the movie Twilight, into a beat-driven electronica piece. In this installment of Start to Finish, viewers will get an up-close look at the creative challenges involved in remixing this track, and tour the tools and techniques used at a high-end audio facility. Be sure to watch the final movie to hear the beautiful and haunting end result.